# Triple booting Vista, XP and Linux

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-booting-vista-xp-and-linux/405193 "2007-05-23T07:46:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-booting-vista-xp-and-linux/405193/21 "2007-05-24T22:55:03Z")

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[QUOTE=DWMarch]  
XP is already old enough to be going to grade school and is riddled with well-known security holes. Vista is more secure but still manages to be more functional.  
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That doesn’t sound right to me at all. Yes, many security holes have been discovered in XP, _and patched_, Vista is supposedly more secure _on paper_, but that’s what they said about XP when it came out (and it needed all those patches.

I’d say a fully-updated installation of XP is quite likely more secure than a fully-updated installation of Vista at this moment in time - there are bound to be more undiscovered exploits in Vista than XP, because of the relative amounts of time there have been for people to go looking for them.

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-booting-vista-xp-and-linux/405193/22 "2007-05-25T04:04:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]

[QUOTE=DWMarch]  
XP is already old enough to be going to grade school and is riddled with well-known security holes. Vista is more secure but still manages to be more functional.  
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That doesn’t sound right to me at all. Yes, many security holes have been discovered in XP, _and patched_, Vista is supposedly more secure _on paper_, but that’s what they said about XP when it came out (and it needed all those patches.

I’d say a fully-updated installation of XP is quite likely more secure than a fully-updated installation of Vista at this moment in time - there are bound to be more undiscovered exploits in Vista than XP, because of the relative amounts of time there have been for people to go looking for them.  
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I completely agree, XP is not that old and by no means hugely more insecure than Vista, in fact as M says most likely it is more secure having been more thoroughly attacked and therefore patched. I’d say unless you absolutely need some functionality that Vista has and XP doesn’t, forget Vista.

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